Before we knew it, the new year entered, and it was January 3, 2011.

This afternoon, Shuguang Technology people came to the Science and Technology Complex Building and once again optimized and upgraded the hardware for the "Nafu" supercomputer. At this moment, Luo Sheng woke up Xiaona and left the supercomputer room. Shuguang Technology staff had already left half an hour ago.

"Master, you have an unread internal email message from the Costa ça." Xiaona, who was reawakened, soon heard a voice.

"Simply report it." Luo Sheng said casually, and came to the wine cabinet and opened a bottle of wine and poured himself a glass of wine. Now Luo Sheng rarely goes to the company office. Most of the situation is carried out in the form of internal emails, or in the form of telephone conferences.

Although Luo Sheng is consciously decreasing his influence in the two companies,... the results are very little. He is almost an irreplaceable absolute soul figure. Even if he really leaves office, he can definitely rule the country from behind.

Xiaona immediately said: "Yao Jianhong, Global Executive Vice President of Costa 1999.78 billion yuan, or about RMB 665.2 billion, or net profit of US$14.63 billion, or about RMB 99.78 billion."

Luo Sheng was a little surprised when he heard this and said, "Didn't the sales exceed 100 billion US dollars last year?"

After saying that, I took a ip tablet and opened the list of email information. I looked at it and found that there was nothing wrong. The financial report had passed the audit, and the probability of error was slim.

However, this data was quite dazzling year-on-year. Both sales and net profit have more than doubled compared with last year. The total sales last year were US$46.2 billion and the net profit was US$6.3 billion.

Luo Sheng put down the tablet and shook it aside.

Xiaona then reported: "The total global sales of Azure-3 phones last year were 113 million units, generating revenue of US$70.286 billion; the total sales of IEP tablets last year were 37 million units, generating revenue of US$17.76 billion; the sales of ACC consoles in the last week of last year were 2.07 million units, generating revenue of US$790 million. The aos app store generated revenue of US$7 billion last year, the total subscription revenue of IEP tablets last year was US$1.7 billion, and the acc console platform generated revenue of US$340 million last year."

It is worth mentioning that the acc console has been on sale for less than half a month so far, and the audit is a week of data. However, in the last week since its release on December 24 last year, all 3A-level game masterpieces on the entire platform sold a total of 24.86 million units, of which 17 million units were sold at a 30% platform commission of US$340 million.

It can be seen that in the acc host business, hardware revenue and profits are secondary, and the enrichment of ecological content has increased, and the platform commission is the absolute majority of revenue.

However, the platform commission for the acc host business is actually currently in a net loss.

Because Luo Sheng acquired several game companies exclusively released by several game companies through Blue Star Technology, according to previous promises, the Costa çaça company not only did not take a commission during the exclusive period, but also had to subsidize one set for equal amount for each set sold. In the last week of last year, several works sold 7.86 million sets, all of which were standard $60 per set, which means that the Costa çaça would have to subsidize $470 million.

The larger the sales volume, the more subsidies you will receive.

Although you lose money, don’t be too happy with such a situation. According to this curve, you can’t lose much time and count the money.

After Xiaona reported the email information, Luo Sheng decisively ordered: "Reply an email to Mr. Yao. The company's financial report can be disclosed to the outside world, just as usual."

Xiaona: "Ok, it has been sent."

...

Ubisoft Headquarters.

As the new year begins, Ubisoft is in full swing.

"Incredible, "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" was launched simultaneously with the ACC console release date, and it set a terrifying sales of 1.92 million sets in the first week. Almost every player who purchased the ACC console sold a "Brotherhood", my god..." Chris Erli, vice president of Ubisoft Digital distribution at the conference, said in an excited tone.

At the same time, there was a document at the meeting, which was the annual report information released by the Costa à la Azure just now. Ubisoft's people did not want to care about how much sales the other party's Azure phone or IEP tablet achieved, nor did they want to care about how much revenue the company had last year.

Ubisoft only focuses on the sales of the Acc console on Costa 1, because this is related to its own revenue. Generally speaking, when a game is sold, the developer accounts for about 28% of the share, the platform is about 30%, and the issuer and channel dealers also need to take corresponding commissions.

It seems that the game companies as developers have a small commission, but publishers, channel providers, and platform providers will also pour in corresponding resources in promotion. Generally speaking, if the cake is bigger, you can eat it, and if the cake is not mostly made, you will drink the northwest wind.

The global sales of acc consoles hit 2.07 million units in the first week, shocked the global gaming industry. Everyone knows that this new next-generation console will definitely sell well, but they didn’t expect it to be so popular. If this trend continues, it will take less than a year or two to be a super first party with a platform of 100 million console users to be born.

All third-party game developers around the world are strongly aware that a first party in the same echelon as Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft is about to become a fact.

"As for the first week of sales data from December 24 last year, the sales of "Brothers" accounted for more than 56% of the acc version, which directly suppressed the Sony P3 version. This is an achievement based on only 2 million acc hosts. If the acc host users have exceeded 40 million, do you know what this means?" Ubisoft's then president Ivers Gillum said in a glance at everyone.

As you all know the meaning of boss, it means that the sales ratio of the acc version will be as high as more than 80%.

Ivers Gillum immediately looked at the vice president of distribution and said decisively: "I decided, Chris, you go to China as soon as possible and talk to the Coast of Azure. After successfully, the popular action game "Assassin's Creed" series under Ubisoft will be exclusive to the acc and its subsequent models. It will no longer be compatible with the xbox series console and the PS series console."

No one of the executives at the meeting came out to object, because the real sales data have proved that the exclusive access of the Assassin's Creed series by Acc can bring Ubisoft to the maximum profit.

What's more, Ubisoft is now very envious of R Star, cdpr, 2kgame and other peers. If you sell a set of Costa 1, you will subsidize one set, which is equivalent to making double the money, and your profit has increased by more than 300%, because the subsidy money is not included in the platform commission, the publisher and channel dealer's pockets, and all of them are included in the developer's pockets.

After the meeting, Chris Erli prepared his itinerary as soon as possible and took a flight to China.

...

Two days later, the Executive Vice President's Office at the Costa del Sur headquarters.

Chris actually wanted to meet and talk with Luo Sheng, but he couldn't see him. Even if the president of Ubisoft came, he might not be able to see him.

Luo Sheng is too busy now, so he doesn’t have so much free time to deal with such small things. For him, this is really a small thing.

The one who met him and talked with him this time was Yao Jianhong. As the second-ranking figure of the real power faction on the Costa delle of the Azure, his existence is second only to Luo Sheng, and that is not something that anyone can see just by saying that.

At this moment, Yao Jianhong looked at the Ubisoft executive sitting opposite him in surprise: "Mr. Chris, do you mean you want the Assassin's Creed series to be an exclusive game for the long term as an acc?"

Ksri Erli nodded very simply and said, "Yes, Mr. Yao, this is my purpose here. Mr. Luo saved Ubisoft. He already owns 19% of Ubisoft's equity and is considered our boss."

Yao Jianhong couldn't help but smile. The foreigner was a little interesting. He came up and greeted him first. It seemed that he had done a lot of homework during this trip.

But for a moment, Yao Jianhong said with a smile: "Okay, the acc platform has no reason to reject the exclusive qualification of a popular masterpiece like "Assassin's Creed". We welcome it very much. So, Mr. Chris, what are the conditions for your company?"

Chris shook his spirit secretly and said, "We hope to obtain the same qualifications as R-star and 2kgame. The sales volume of the games sold in the first half of the year can be equally subsidized."

Nowadays, third-party developers don’t know how envious, jealous and hate these companies. This is the benefit of getting into the trap early. The risk period has passed, and the following is the time to make a lot of money.

With this subsidy, within half a year, it is equivalent to selling one share of their game to get the actual profit, which is only worth the price of selling four shares by other developers. Who can not be greedy?

Yao Jianhong calmly shook his head: "If it is just the "Assassin's Creed" series, sorry, my company cannot accept it."

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Chapter completed!